Oh, Thursday. The least enjoyable day I've ever spent at a conference.
By Thursday my brain was full. I was tired of sitting in sessions, especially since they were such long sessions. There were no presentations that I wanted to listen to. I was ready to leave as soon as Toni finished her student volunteer hours.
As of Thursday morning, Toni was 45 minutes short of her 20 hours. So, they scheduled her for a four hour timeslot. Lame. Well, an hour into that timeslot they were done with anything they needed her for, but they wouldn't sign her out as completing her timeslot. So she sat there with nothing to do for another hour. Then they released all student volunteers so that they could go see the keynote, and told them they had to sign out afterwards. At this point, I'm laying on the floor of the hotel lobby trying to find ways to entertain myself despite my dead laptop battery and my full brain. Toni waited until they were asking questions at the keynote--15 minutes before her shift ended. She tried to sign out and they still wouldn't let her. She left without signing out.
Well, we might as well have waited that fifteen minutes. Trying to leave Atlanta at 5:45PM is not easy. Still we made our way to 85 and eventually got home, after battling rush hour traffic and road work near Seneca. On the way home we heard a country rap song which made me laugh really hard. According to Wikipedia, country rap has been identified as a genre for more than 20 years. That's new to me.
Finally, home to Clemson. I got some subpar Chinese food, sat on my bed and ate it, and went to bed.
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